Clownfish in 2004: Nemo-effect papers · 340

The fish mucus lacks the cues that trigger nematocysts, and acclimation behaviour matters. It is not a cartoon handshake. Fish may linger on a dying anemone and then vanish from that site. Reef heatwaves are a housing crisis for the genus. Are clownfish good parents in the film sense?

Males tend the nest of demersal eggs. The biology is paternal care, not a transoceanic search. Where is the wild centre of the type? Eastern Indian and western Pacific reefs -- Andaman to the Philippines and Australia north -- not a Sydney Harbour suburban anemone. Is aquaculture the conservation ending?

Captive-bred ocellaris cut some wild take. It does not rebuild bleached hosts or stop cyanide fishing of other reef species sold beside them. Clownfish is one of 24 types in this animals atlas. The pages treat it as a full system -- history, anatomy, operating principles, culture, icons, future pressure and market shape -- not a ranking of a best species.